ort

[ awrt ]

/ ɔrt /

noun

Usually orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

QUIZZES

CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

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Origin of ort

1400–50; late Middle English; cognate with Low German ort, early Dutch oorete; compare Old English or- out-, ǣt food (see eat)

Words nearby ort

orseille, orsha, orsini, orsk, orson, ort, ortanique, ortega, ortega saavedra, ortega y gasset, ortegal

Example sentences from the Web for ort

It ort to meet the 'proval of the American Fish-hawk with all his pinions and talents.
The End Of The World|Edward Eggleston
I told her that if she wanted a govermunt quilt and wanted it appropriate she ort to have a crazy quilt.
Samantha on the Woman Question|Marietta Holley
By rights, he ort ter hev got shuffled out o' the game, across the lake in that balloon house.
Motor Matt's Hard Luck|Stanley R. Matthews
My fruit cake is good, though I say it that ort not to; it is widely known and admired.
Samantha at the World's Fair|Marietta Holley

I ain't acquainted through heah, but I reckon nine oah ten days had ort to put us into Eagle if the snow holds.
Connie Morgan in Alaska|James B. Hendryx